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Ken,
You could just say that in physics it is sometimes helpful to use
an artificial language because it sometimes paints a clearer picture --
The truth is that no one has the foggiest idea of what light is -- we talk
about photons when that idea is helpful and waves when that idea is helpful
to solve problems. But light is neither corpuscular or a wave -- although
it acts like one or the other at times.
Is this a bad analogy? I try to avound the flow word and have rays
penetrate.....
Ken Fox
AP/IB Physics Teacher
Smoky Hill High School
Aurora, CO
Jim Green
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